Schooner submerged by tsunami, ca. November 1929

The masts of a submerged schooner jut out of the water in an unidentified bay along Newfoundland’s Burin Peninsula. A tsunami sank this vessel and hundreds more after it hit the peninsula on 18 November 1929.

Photographer unknown. Reproduced by permission of the Archives and Manuscripts Division (MF 391.1.02), Queen Elizabeth II Library, Memorial University, St. John’s, NL.